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this was the last day before the trump presidency s 100th day. and congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. there is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. no legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. we have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. it s when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. and it only goes down after that. what a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. this is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. and he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill clinton. at this point in bill clinton s first year, the congress was working overtime. at the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bi ....
to publish it. it is not illegal for us to publish it. watch this question of this revelation tonight brings forward. this 1040 report and getting into reporters hands, there is reasonable to expect that there is more out there and we ll see more of this come up. you know how much the president made and paid in that one year. we only have two pages. there is still a long list of questions that could be answered by the president if you want to release more or anybody else does of this source that gets it in our hands. thanks for being with us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now, it is time for last word of lawrence o donnel. rachel, you know normally at 9:00 p.m. i have some stuff to do to prepare for a 10:00 p.m. live tv show. all that stuff, i made sure it was done at 8:59 p.m. i got to watch every minute tonight. this has been an amazing out on this program that there is absolutely no proof and never has been proof that any of donald trump s relevant tax returns a ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....
going on. but tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. oh, okay. and you ruined it. because i just listened again. rachel. bless our hearts and other parts. all right. but [ laughter ] i didn t know i could get you to say that again. i m regretting it immediately. okay. i m going to try to say the thing i planned to say. okay. and what i planned to say is wouldn t it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that vladimir putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn t it be so nice if you couldn t even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that? wouldn t it be great if we could go back to wag the dog being a sitcom plot, you know. exactly. and i don t know what it is. is it a 2% chance? is it a 50% chance? i don t know. but i don t think it s a ....
we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....